Past Continuous

(минулий тривалий час)

 Past Continuous

вживається для вираження дії, що

відбувалась в певний момент чи
період часу в минулому
I/he/she/it Was - однина
V+ ing
you/we/they Were - множина
He was tidying up the room
at 6 o'clock in the evening.

We were singing a song

at 7 p.m.
 Positive sentences
(розповідні речення)

I was
He was play – playing
She was sleep – sleeping
It was Ving write - writing
We were get - getting
You were
They were
Negatives(заперечні речення)

The woman was not (wasn't) washing up

at 4 o'clock.
She was making dinner at that time.

was not = wasn’t

were not = weren’t

They were not sleeping at 8 a.m.

They were having breakfast
at that time.
Questions (запитання)
She was ironing when he came.
Was she ironing when he came?
Yes, she was./ No, she wasn't.

The children were playing at 4 p.m.

Were the children playing at 4 p.m.?
Yes, they were./ No, they weren't
Wh-questions
(спеціальні запитання)
Where was
What was підмет Ving
Why were
Whose
Where were they dancing at
9 p.m.? - They were
dancing at the disco.
What were they doing at 9
a.m.? -They were running.
Who was watering the
flowers at 8 a.m.? - My son
was
 Remember
Певний момент часу в минулому може
бути виражений: проміжком підрядним реченням: го
часу у – минулий тривалий; під
певним часом – минулий простий
минулому
He was playing He was having a
football at 5 He was drawing bath
p.m. yesterday. from 5 till 7 when I entered the
o’clock yesterday.
room.
 Процес дії в минулому
підкреслюємо за допомогою:

сполучників: all day long,

while, when, the whole
as, evening,
all the time
While Ben was working in the garden,
Steve was
Bill was washing clothes.
working the whole
Коли дія відбувається одночасно –
evening
Минулий тривалий час